Byron York: Fast track too fast for some

5:03 PM,
Apr. 30, 2013

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Byron York

Members of the Senate's bipartisan Gang of Eight stress that under their new immigration plan, currently illegal immigrants will have to wait more than a decade before achieving citizenship. Newly legalized immigrants will be given a provisional status and "will have to stay in that status until at least 10 years elapse and (border security) triggers are met," Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio told Fox News on April 14. After that, Rubio said, they'll have to wait longer for a green card and, ultimately, citizenship.

Unless they don't. A little-noticed exception in the Gang of Eight bill ...